shallowmagics:
It was stupid to believe Geralt. Back home, believing her father was a matter of her own life or death. Trusting Geralt meant Ciri had a much better chance of living. Even if it scared her in the process. She had spent longer than she thought with him that day, holding onto that same hope.
If she was with Geralt, she was safe.
Cirilla had never imagined one of her core tenants would shatter around her like broken glass.
“I know, I know I shouldn’t.” But she wanted to.
“I liked it better when I thought he was on a different sphere,” she muttered, dark and low. Selfish, she knew but Ciri would say anything, wish for anything, in order to contain the gaping wound in her chest.
If Yennefer could’ve stopped the pain herself, she would’ve. She wanted to find every one of the fragmented pieces around her daughter, to take them on as her own; for those she couldn't take, she would file them down until they couldn't do harm any longer. Ciri was the only person she could ever fathom doing such a thing for.
“I preferred it that way too. It was much easier like that.” Her fingers continued smoothing down her back, until she decided to make a little attempt at capturing Ciri’s attention. A wisp of concentrated pale smoke came up from one of the few burning candles in the room. Though the fire was not its source, Yennefer was. It grew in size until it was nearly the size of a basketball. It danced around the living room in the shape of little animals and birds and figures.
“I think the pair of us deserve a Skellige beach vacation after all of this. Don’t you?”
ofmvoonlight:
“I can talk about him for hours and never grow tired of it” Zelda smiled. “His name is Link and we are bound together in a way. We die in one timeline and come back in another but we always find each other. We never stay too far away from one another and that is the greatest comfort I have ever experienced. His duty was to keep me and my kingdom safe from evil. Along the way it just seems like we both fell madly in love. Took us a while to finally admit it out loud. From my part it was out of fear of being rejected”
“And when it comes to me. Well I used to be a princess but now I am a model. I am a huge animal lover and I also love long showers and walks in the woods. In a way it soothes me from the confusion of this town”
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No matter how many strange things he had seen, the tales which some members of Sallow Hills had to offer still managed to leave Sam a bit taken aback. Right, so reincarnation was a thing. Mental note on that one.
“That really is a slow burning love story if I’ve ever heard one. I’m afraid you’ve got me beat,” he chuckled. He knew a thing or two about that sort of fear, so he could hardly hold it against her for waiting so long (not that Sam was the type of person to do such a thing). They certainly looked the part of a princess; they had the same kind air around them as the Lady Arwen did, though he wasn't completely sure if she was an actual princess or not. “Princess? Well that surely does fit you, doesn't it.”
He smiled, one kind yet tinged with a sadness, “Walks in the woods have always done me good, even before I came here. But I have heard some strange tales about the one surrounding town.” Sam didn’t remark on his own experience with the not-so-friendly forest he had been in before; he didn’t think there was a bouncy man in a funny coat living in this forest, either, so he left that out as well. “If I’m being honest, it gives me the creeps sometimes, but it offers some interesting flora to study, so I make trips to it anyway”
ofmvoonlight:
He listened intently to each and every word, letting them hang in the small space between them. Time and space ceased to exist and for once he did not care. He was content in this little world of their. He was far away from all the hurt and from all his fears. He was safe here, happy here, warm and maybe even loved here. He could feel the words sink into his skin, burn like the summer rays.
This was not fair. It wasn’t right to finally find someone who gave him the sensations he had been yearning for. Every single face he looked at, every body he had touched during his years here in Sallow. None of them made him feel like she did. Just one glance and he felt whole again. It made it hard to breathe almost because every single gasp for air made his lungs heavier. And now that she touched him, his soul almost left his body all together.
Please remember. Please just remember, you fucker.
Geralt’s eyes closed at the kiss. It was like his body almost betrayed him because when she turned, he felt his hand reach out. Finding a home on her arm, he didn’t do anything to turn her back around. He did not have the right to dictate if she wanted to face him or not. That was her’s and only her’s. “I truly am sorry” the former Witcher whispered. “I want to remember. I want to look at you and not feel confusion”
Anything Yennefer could do or say would be unfair to him. He didn’t know better, and none of it was his fault, yet her chest ached and eyes stung. She tried and tried and tried to keep it together, but failed miserably the second she felt his hand settle on her arm. By the time she turned toward him once more, tears had silently slipped down her cheeks.
The only person who could ever break Yennefer of Vengerberg was Geralt of Rivia.
“And I want the same,” her voice remained level, if not a little strained. “Because you mean very much to me. Very much indeed. And the thought of you walking around here like some stranger is... I cant, Geralt. I cant do that. I look at you and all I want to do is-” She stopped, not for herself, but for him. He didn't need to hear this.
Wiping her face with the back of the wrist on her free arm, Yennefer steadied herself. Her mascara probably smudged, but she barely found it in herself to care for once. Appearance had already been spoiled, after all. Clearing her mind, tucking her heart back in its gilded cage, drying her eyes, and squaring her shoulders, she looked at him properly once more. Façade back up. “I’m sorry you had to see me like that.”
wickedpotions:
✧・゚ ┊ ┊ ┊ REMUS && SAMWISE
*̩̩̥͙ -•̩̩͙-ˏˋ⋆ ⋆ˊˎ-•̩̩͙- *̩̩̥͙
AS HE WAS LISTING THEM ALL OFF, REMUS REALIZED JUST HOW EXPENSIVE THIS WAS GOING TO BE. there was no way he was going to be able to afford them all now, but maybe if he could just get a couple. Then a couple more. It wasn’t like this was going to be prepped by the next full anyway, so waiting a bit longer wouldn’t do that much damage. ❝ If aconite isn’t too temperamental, I could probably take the seedlings. I’ll be trying my best to upkeep them anyway. But if you think it’s better to wait till their older, I’d like to put my name down for a plant or two and come back later. I’ll probably not be able to afford all the plants right now anyway, so I don’t mind waiting ❞
REMUS WAS ALRIGHT WITH PLANTS. he didn’t kill them by just looking at them, and he’d always had decent scores in herbology. But there was passing a class and there was keeping a garden of plants alive for his well being. Samwise’s offer stuck out though. Remus, too, couldn’t replicate the valerian roots. Even Pomfrey wouldn’t have risked that - plants were always difficult to replicate especially if you wanted to keep their properties. ❝ I’d actually really appreciate that. These are all - they’re part of a health routine my doctor is putting me on. I’d like to be able to maintain them and not have to re-purchase them often. ❞
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It took a moment for Sam to come up with a good answer. He didn’t have aconite back home, which meant he had very limited experiences with it. From what he had seen, a novice should be able to take care of it just fine, but he didn’t want to make a guarantee he couldn’t back, especially when it seemed like an object of such importance.
“Tell you what-- I think you should be just fine taking care of the seedlings, but if you're not, come back in a week or two and I’ll get you a grown one to replace it. Sound alright?” He walked past Remus to get to the other end of the shop, and stopped in the back corner near a door with a, ‘employees only’ sign across it in bold letters. A moment later he returned with the tiny aconite plants, and placed them on the counter. He retrieved the valerian from a nearby shelf, and brought it to the counter as well. “Not a problem! I’m glad to show you. Its really not too difficult. You may mess it up once or twice in the beginning, but I’m sure you'll get the hang of it.”
wickedpotions:
BILL FELT FRUSTRATED . no , that wasn’t the right word for it . It was a jumble of emotions that ranged for sorrow to curiosity to frustration at the world to just plain curiosity . River Song . Bill knew she’d travelled with the Doctor ( though she didn’t know to what extent ) . She knew that Nardole had known her from the way he had occasionally stared at her photograph with sorrow and love . And here she was in front of Bill , yet she held no memory . Parallel universes existed ( very obvious to Bill now , though Jenny had confirmed it ) . Was it possible that this was River Song , but some River Song from a different parallel universe than Bill and the Doctor ? Or was it just the memory loss stuff that apparently happened here . ( Bill was grateful the only memory loss she seemed to have was how she’d gotten from the hospital room to here . )
❝ Maybe you did travel . If you don’t remember much , who’s to say . You look like the kinda person who would travel . It’s in the eyes , you know ? It’s how I knew the Doctor had travelled and seen a lot - their eyes gave it away . ❞
She bit her tongue at the idea of Nardole being French . She suspected that he’d get a kick outta that if he’d heard , and thankfully he wasn’t here to hear it and be insufferable . ❝ Nah , Nardole is the least French person I know . He’s like - my weird uncle but in the cool way not in the creepy way . I was told once when I described him like that that I needed to specify that . ❞
In the eyes. There was something for that. She had noticed it in the Doctor’s eyes when they had first met (though she couldn’t quite define what ‘it’ was). Maybe Bill had a point. The girl was very perceptive, and seemed to have a knack for piecing things together. Perhaps that's why someone as strangely intriguing as the Doctor had taken her in.
River flashed a smile. “I seem like the well traveled type? I’ll take that as a compliment.”
With a soft laugh, River looked over to her, “Specifying that is decently helpful, I’d think.” A moment later, she had found the perfect rug. If River were being honest, she was about to lose hope of finding one in the stack. Yet this one was a perfect fit. “This will do nicely. What do you think, Bill? Pretty?”
endlxssnights:
Ciri thought she could do this. She had been on her own for much longer, under much more traumatic circumstances. Those had ended… decently, with far less issues than she initially expected to come out of those situations with. There was something about the quiet living in Sallow Hills, the lull of the town making even the smallest of situations seem mountainous.
She couldn’t. Ciri still felt very much like a child when she slid the key into the lock- steadily ignoring the tightness in her throat when it sank in smoothly, Yennefer hadn’t changed the locks- even more so upon swinging open the door. She dropped the duffle bag to the ground, trying to ignore the sense that she had betrayed her mother by staying away for so long.
@bombadills for yennefer!
The topic of Ciri weighed heavily on Yennefer’s mind, as it often had since the day they had met. Of course she knew that her daughter was perfectly capable of taking care of herself (especially since there was no Hunt here to chase her), but she still worried. She was still her mother, better or worse.
Things were better with Geralt, which helped soothe her frayed nerves partially but not completely. Her flat felt so empty without Ciri there to fill it.
The sound of the door opening sent a little jolt through her system; interrupting her thoughts as she was pouring herself a glass of wine in the kitchen. She wasn’t expecting any visitors, surely none that could simply open the door. Logically she knew nobody could get through the wards on the door if they weren't supposed to, but it was still ingrained in her to jump into fight mode.
As Yennefer entered the front room to investigate, her heart swelled and her anxieties diminished. Holding out her hands in a welcoming gesture for the girl to take, a smile lit up her face. “Ciri, my darling girl.”
@ofmvoonlight yeah:)
THE WITCHER 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
⌘Midna & Jack Frost⌘
for the lovely @snowballsandfun
Midna never let boredom take her for long. Unemployed though she was, she had enough friends and things to do to keep her busy most days. When those options failed her, she simply went out in search of something else to occupy her time.
At first it had manifested as an eagerness to give the forest a thorough exploration. Midna had met her fair share of interesting people and sights there. Then, she moved on to the rest of town proper. She acquainted herself well enough with the layout of houses and shops should she ever need any of them. It was after a few weeks of being there that she realised she hadn't explored much of the opposite end of town, near the coast.
All of her friends occupied with their own business, and wanting to remedy that fact, Midna decided to take the day to poke around the coast to look for something interesting.
She hadn’t been there ten minutes when she heard a voice from behind her that made her head swivel like an owl. She squinted a little against the sun, trying to get a better look at the person now standing there. Midna cocked her head to the side a little. “Sorry, come again? Couldn’t hear you.”
wickedpotions:
REMUS’S MIND CAME TO A SCREECHING HALT AS HE PROCESSED THE MAN’S WORDS. hobbit. Hobbit! Oh he was a great big blubbering idiot. He was dumber than a flobberworm; how had he not seen this? Or even thought about it? When Stephanie Brown had explained the idea of multiple universes to him (not that it needed much explaining - he was a comic reader after all, and the idea wasn’t even a stretch for the wizarding world), why had he not wondered if characters he loved would be here. Like fucking Lord of the Rings characters.
❝ I SUPPOSE IT MUST GET ANNOYING WHEN PEOPLE JUST ASSUME YOU’RE HUMAN. ❞ i’m not human either, not fully. Not that Remus would say that out loud even to people who knew. Though that was probably because he knew the people who knew would hit him if they heard him say that. ❝ That’s really nice that you learned it all from your dad. My pa - well we have magic in common but that’s about it. My ma though. I was trying to go into the same field as her, nursing. She was an angel, I swear. ❞ He chuckled, shaking his head. ❝ Sorry, you didn’t ask for my life story. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I don’t believe I caught your name. I’m Remus. ❞
With a shrug, Sam scribbled down the things he had just sold on a list, and handed the man his receipt. “I don’t mind when people assume it, not anymore. It makes things a little easier most times.”
He missed his Old Gaffer often, especially when he was working. Being there reminded him of all those days spent gardening together. He was a good man, whom Samwise had learned a great deal of his life’s operations from (the rest being from Mr. Bilbo and his own experiences). “I love learning about people, especially when so many here are from strange lands, comparatively speaking. That's really lovely you’re following in her footsteps.” Holding out his hand to shake, a grin on his face, he continued, “Nice to meet you Remus. Sam Gamgee at your service.”
"I think you know how to love better than any of us. That’s why you find it all so painful.”꧁Sallow Hills mumu꧂Cecil Palmer & Sasha James & Sam Winchester
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